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All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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Popularity is for dolls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
